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A Fairy Tale - 1,177 words
A Fairy Tale A fairy tale. Ruby Red, a tale of
deceit By Robyn Smith The winter in Argroutsmere
had always set on early. It was October, all
hallows eve and winter was already here, infact
one of the coldest that this small quaint kingdom
had ever seen. The trees turned to glass, their
branches heavy in a frozen ache, layer upon layer
of feather light crystals had gracefully drifted
and floated from the heavens, to make this land as
pure and white as above. The bear tracks below
filling in slowly, the owner long passed. A
blanket of fleece covered the earth, a barrier
between warmth below and harsh cold above. The
lake was of crystal, jewels hidden in the bushes,
Sharp daggers of ice, hung f ...
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A Fairy Tale - 1,199 words
... the forest; he greeted the seven occupants
like old friends, as they were. He handed over the
bag, they had all been given instructions from
'The leader' ('O Great Master of Evil, Satan, King
of Darkness, Beelzebub, Lucifer the Dragon, Slayer
of Heaven, Serpent of Eden, Devil of hell', or
what ever every one was calling him today). The
baby was to be brought up in the forest; she
should stay hidden from all. She was to have no
contact with witches, humans, good fairies or
elves; above all she was to be brought up evil or
at least tainted, and be included in their satanic
worship. She was also never to learn about her
fate, and no one was to be told her whereabouts,
as this could clearly ...
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Fairy Tale Conventions And Great Expectations - 1,122 words
Fairy Tale Conventions And Great Expectations
(Hainstock 1) Great Expectations and Fairy tales
Tolkien describes the facets which are necessary
in a good fairy tales as fantasy, recovery,
escape, and consolation - recovery from deep
despair, escape from some great danger, but most
of all, consolation. Speak- ing of the happy
ending,all complete fairy stories must have
itHowever fantastic or terrible the adventure, it
can give to child or man that hears it,a catch of
breath, a beat and lifting of the heart near to
tears. (Uses of Enchantment, pg.143) Great
Expectations shares many of the conventions of
fairy tales. The one dimensional characters, the
use of repetition, and the evil women seem ...
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Fairy Tale Conventions And Great Expectations - 1,123 words
... oving and warm-hearted child that he was once
know to be. He once again appreciates Joe and all
he has done for him, and he fancied that he was
little Pip again (467). The relationship that is
described between Magwitch and Compeyson is a
repetition of the relationship between Pip and
Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham took Pip in and made
him think she had good intentions. All she really
wanted was to see him get hurt, to pay the debt
that she felt her ex lover owed her. She told him
to love her, love her, love her (240) because she
knew the end result would be pain. Miss Havisham
ended up making Pip's life miserable. Magwitch was
but a servant, or a helper to Compeyson. Compeyson
brought him ...
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Psychology And Fairy Tale - 1,050 words
Psychology And Fairy Tale Many parents read fairy
tales to their children. Young people are able to
use their imaginations while listening to these
fantastical stories. Filled with dragons, witches,
damsels in distress, and heroes, these tales stay
in the mind children for years to come. However,
these young listeners are getting much more than a
happy ending. Fairy tales such as The Goose Girl,
The Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, and Snow White
one can find theories of psychology. Erik
Erikson`s theories of social development as well
as Sigmund Freud`s theory of the map of the mind
and his controversial Oedipal complex can be found
in many fairy tales. Within every fairy tale there
lies a hi ...
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Psychology And Fairy Tale - 1,002 words
... now known as Oedipus traveled to the prophet.
The prophet told him he would murder his father
and marry his mother. Horrified at the prediction
he refused to return home to his adoptive parents.
He wandered around and was struck by a chariot
containing his birth father. Oedipus killed his
unknown birth father and the driver. Unconcerned
with what he had done he came to Thebes where he
found a sphinx guarding the city. The sphinx would
not let anyone into the city unless they answered
a riddle. After answering the riddle correctly the
sphinx killed herself. The citizens were so happy
they offered their queen to Oedipus. He then
married the queen who was his unknown birth
mother. After ha ...
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A Feminist Reading Of Dh Lawrences - 1,932 words
A Feminist Reading of D.H. Lawrences The Rocking
Horse Winner The man that does not know sick women
does not know women. - S. Weir Mitchell "The
Rocking Horse Winner" is the story of a boys gift
for picking the winners in horse races. An
omniscient narrator relates the tale of a boy
whose family is always short of money. His mother
is incapable of showing love and is obsessed with
the status that material wealth can provide. This
paper will explore the premise that D.H. Lawrence
presented the figure of the mother as the villain;
a loathsome, unloving character with no commitment
to genuine values. This evil mother figure will
ultimately be the "male-destroyer" by turning her
"nameless" husba ...
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Alice And The Wonderland - 1,577 words
Alice And The Wonderland To millions around the
world, Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland is
merely a childhood dreamland filled with riddles,
fairy tails, and games without rules. However, to
the trained eye, Alices world translates into much
more than a childs bedtime story. There are many
undeniable patterns and connections seen
throughout his story that are simply too radical
to be mere coincidence. The story of Alice is both
a mixture of contradictory patterns and a metaphor
for growth. With the right train-of-thought and a
little imagination, this otherwise straightforward
fairy tale becomes a key to Carrolls inner
thoughts. Psychoanalysts have analyzed Alice in
Wonderland since the ea ...
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Alice In Wonderland - 1,801 words
Alice In Wonderland Finding the Child in Us All
Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland has entertained not only children but
adults for over one hundred years. The tale has
become a treasure of philosophers, literary
critics, psychoanalysts, and linguists. It also
has attracted Carroll's fellow mathematicians and
logicians. There appears to be something in Alice
for everyone, and there are almost as many
explanations of the work as there are
commentators. It may be perhaps Carroll's
fantastical style of writing that entertains the
reader, rather than teaching them a lesson as was
customary in his time. Heavy literary symbolism is
difficult to trace through his works because ...
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Alices Adventures In Wonderland - 1,690 words
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland An analysis of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The following
text is a small part of a project from: Jerry
Maatta, HII, Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden
Written in March 1997 Interpretations and opinions
It is important to bear in mind that Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland, however special it may
seem and however many different interpretations
one thinks one can find, is, after all, but a
story written to entertain Charles Dodgson's
favourite child-friends. It is very obvious in the
story that it was written for the three Liddell
girls, of whom Alice was the closest to Dodgson.
In the introductory poem to the tale, there are
clear indications to the three, th ...
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Analysis Of Childrens Fairy Tales - 2,087 words
Analysis of Children's Fairy Tales Week 1-Fairy
Tales I was fascinated by reading fairy tales,
especially the ones by the Brothers Grimm. By
analyzing them according to the protagonists,
settings , themes, and occurrences I have noticed
many similarities in the fairy tales. I found the
protagonists of all the stories to be mystical and
mysterious. Many of the protagonists tended to be
characters such as Kings and Queens and other
authority figures. Perhaps this was so the
children could look up to them. Second of all I
noticed that there was always something unique
about the protagonists that made them different
from people in the ordinary world. I read a
variety of protagonists such as hunt ...
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As Bees In Honey Drown - 1,299 words
As Bees In Honey Drown On October 16, I went to
see As Bees in Honey Drown presented by the
Fortune company at Theater in the park, located in
Flushing meadows park. The timing of the show was
6:00 p.m., but I got to the theater by 6:10 due to
the unexpected traffic for the Mets game on the
same night. When I got to the theater, people were
still getting tickets for the show. I rushed into
the theater to get a good seat (the show had
general admission). Most of the audience were in
their fifties and up. There were a few in their
20s who were friends of the actors. There were
about 100 seats in the theater; about 60 were
occupied. I chose to see a play in a small theater
because I felt that I ...
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Awakening By Edna Pontellier - 1,092 words
Awakening By Edna Pontellier There are many
important paths that we must follow on our journey
through life. We follow the path without
questioning its intent. The path informs us when
we should learn to talk, to walk, to marry, and to
have children. We are told that we should never
stray from it, because if we do, society will make
it certain that we are bound for damnation. In the
novel The Awakening the main character, Edna
Pontellier, has followed this path without so much
as a fuss. All that changes when Edna is awakened
from a life long slumbera slumber, which she found
repetitious, monotonous, and futile. She discovers
that she is incomplete being just a wife and a
mother. She needs t ...
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Awakening By Kate Chopin Focus - 635 words
Awakening By Kate Chopin Focus Kate Chopins novel
The Awakening relates the emotion-driven story of
Edna Pontellier. Her story is a happy one. Not
because of some typical fairy tale ending where
they all live happily ever after, but in that she
accomplished her goal in life. She never
"sacrificed herself for her children." (p. 115)
Edna Pontellier remained an individual. The music
that was brought to her by Mademoiselle Reisz
stirred up a deeper meaning in Edna's life. This
is the point at which she feels her new being
forming. In the end, not only did she realized
that her new life had no place in this world, but
that she would be happier in the sea, where there
were no restrictions placed ...
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Beowulf And Evil Grendel - 1,033 words
Beowulf And Evil Grendel Both Shild Shaving and
Beowulf were highly honored during their lives.
Both were brave warriors, victorious in many
Battles. Shild conquered many people, and many
lands. For example, "...How Shild made slaves of
soldiers from every Land, crowds of captives hed
beaten into terror..." He also became the king of
the Danes. He was highly honored, and became very
rich in his lifetime. Just as Beowulf had become
one of the most famous men during life due to his
defeat of Grendel, and Grendels mother. He later
also became king of Geatland. He ruled for fifty
years, but his time came during a battle against
and irate dragon. Beowulf was still very strong in
his elderly years ...
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Bible About Muhammad - 5,518 words
... a hundred different tests that the
unprejudiced seeker after truth can apply to the
Holy Quran and it will qualify with flying colors
to being a Message from on High. Like Adam Does
the miraculous birth of Jesus make him a God or a
"begotten" son of God? No! says the Holy Quran:
"The similitude of Jesus before Allah (God) is
that of Adam; He created him from dust then said
to him: 'Be', and he was." (3:59) Yusuf Ali,
comments in his notes in the Quran translation:
"After a description of the high position which
Jesus occupies as a prophet in the preceding
verses we have a repudiation of the dogma that he
was God, or the son of God, or any thing more than
man. If it is said that he was bo ...
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Briar Rose - 412 words
Briar Rose In a nutshell: Briar Rose is the story
of the Holocaust intertwined with the fairy tale
of Sleeping Beauty. The story begins with the
death of the "Gemma," the grandmother of Becca.
Through out Beccas life Gemma told the story of
Sleeping Beauty many times to her. Now, however,
after making a promise to her grandmother, to find
her past, the once insignificant fairy tale might
be a clue to her actual past. Before her
grandmother's death Becca had vowed to fulfill her
grandmothers promise, which was to rediscover her
origin. After the grandmother's death, Becca
became intrigued in what she had found in a box
Gemma left behind. In the box there were only
vague clues about Gemmas pas ...
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Citizen Kane - 1,168 words
Citizen Kane The classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane
(1941), is probably the world's most famous and
highly rated film, with its many remarkable
scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques and
innovations. The director, star, and producer were
all the same individual - Orson Welles (in his
film debut at age 25), who collaborated with
Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script and with Gregg
Toland as cinematographer. Within the maze of its
own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two
interesting themes. The first concerns the
debasement of the private personality of the
public figure, and the second deals with the
crushing weight of materialism. Taken together,
these two themes comprise the bitter irony of ...
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Clockwork Orange - 681 words
Clockwork Orange A Clockwork Orange is one of the
most controversial movies ever made. The movie is
based around a thug named Alex, a teenager, who
finds happiness in about any perverse action.
Alex, who seems to find glory in rape, lust, and
murder, tells the story from his point of view.
The movie examines the usual cliches of
"individual freedom". It seems as if Alex suffers
from an attempt to exercise his own vitality
within a social structure too severe to support
it. The film is not only a social satire but also
a "fairy tale of retribution" and a "psychological
myth",(Kagan) all constructed around the truth of
human nature. Each night Alex and his companions
commit stylized but meanin ...
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